Of course all members of the shadow cabinet will be travelling the length and breadth of the country during the campaign, but there will doubtless be particular interest in the constituencies which David Cameron visits. This will be a record of those visits (N.B. Target numbers are based on the figures of the notional majorities calculated by Profs Rallings and Thrasher at the University of Plymouth).

Wednesday 5th May Mr Cameron campaigned through the night, meeting night shift workers at WEC Engineering’s base in Rossendale and Darwen (Target 77), another visit to Ed Balls' Morley and Outwood seat (Target 196), where he went to a Morrisons supermarket distribution centre. By dawn he was with fishermen in the fishing port of Great Grimsby (Target 214). Then it was on to Nottinghamshire, visiting the Sir John Sherbrooke Junior School in Calverton in the Sherwood constituency (Target 152). By lunchtime he had travelled across to the West MIdlands to visit an ambulance station in Dudley North (Target 106). It was then on to Wales, where he paid a mid-afternoon visit to a school, Ysgol Daffyd Llwyd, in Montgomeryshire (Target 210) - meaning he has visited all four constituent parts of the UK in the last 24 hours. It was then on to Bristol for a final campaign rally (pictured) at Brunel's Old Station in the Bristol West consituency, whcih borders more marginal Bristol North West (Target 54) and Bristol East (Target 170).

Tuesday 4th May The day began with campaigning in Hendon (Target 73) for Matthew Offord, after which Mr Cameron flew to Northern Ireland to speak at a rally in Strangford, County Down. It is the seat that was held by Iris Robinson in the last Parliament for the DUP, but is being contested by Mike Nesbitt for the Conservaitves and Unionists at this election. It was then back in the air to travel to a rally in Renfrewshire East (Target 138) to support Richard Cook. He then travelled down the motorway to Carlisle (Target 132) where he visited night shift workers at the Carlisle Fire and Rescue station (pictured).

Monday 3rd MayA bank holiday, but a busy day for David Cameron, which started at the Chepstow Community Garden in Blackpool North and Cleveleys (Target 79) with local candidate Paul Maynard. He then went back to London where he visited the City of London Academy in the Bermondsey and Old Southwark constituency with Boris Johnson, Jeremy Hunt, Hugh Robertson and sports stars Gavin Hastings and James Cracknell to promote an Olympics-style school sports competition. He then addressed the Citizens UK Assembly in Westminster before being interviewed for Sky News by Adam Boulton - after which he addressed a rally in Feltham in the Feltham and Heston seat (Target 182) where Mark Bowen is the Tory candidate.

Sunday 2nd May After being interviewed by Andrew Marr, David Cameron headed for Cornwall, where he addressed a rally of supporters in Newquay in the new St Austell and Newquay (Target 119) constituency being contested by Caroline Righton. He then went up to North Wales where he went campaigning at a Tesco store in Holywell in Delyn (Target 186) with local candidate Antoinette Sandbach.

Saturday 1st MayThe first visit of the day was to the Lister General Hospital in Stevenage (Target 72) with candidate Stephen McPartland. He then spent some time campaigning in Woodstock in his own Witney constituency before going to Dagenham and Rainham (Target 151) where he visited the Rush Green Medical Centre before addressing a party rally with locsal candidate Simon Jones.

Yesterday we noted the excellent advert from South Ribble's Lorraine Fullbrook - which included a strong reference to the Conservative Party's immigration policy. Lorraine knows what she is doing. She achieved the best council results in the country for three years in a row.

I've had a dozen candidates get in touch to say they are now determined to ignore CCHQ and put references to immigration on their literature. One told me: "This is the issue on the doorstep and it's ridiculous that we can't mention it."

Jonathan Isaby and I are keen to highlight other examples of good literature and other campaign ideas. If you have ideas you want to share please email me or Jonathan.

Janice Small, our candidate in Batlery and Spen, sent in this image:

The image of the lovely Janice will appear on the back of ten buses for ten weeks and all paid for by local fundraising.

Today, the Yorkshire Post focuses on the battleground constituencies falling within its jurisdiction, most of which fall within West Yorkshire. The party currently holds just one seat in that county - Shipley, gained by Philip Davies in 2005.

And of the target seats which would deliver a Tory majority of the Commons of around 40, all but three of the thirteen constituencies in the Yorkshire and the Humber Region are in West Yorkshire:

Janice Small was last night selected at an open primary to contest the West Yorkshire marginal of Batley and Spen at the next general election. She runs a marketing business with clients in pharma, automotive, financial services and political communications. Janice ran the press campaign for David Davis during the Haltemprice and Howden by-election last year and she also works for Yorkshire & the Humber MEP, Edward McMillan-Scott. She recently came second in the Calder Valley selection process before securing this Yorkshire seat.

Batley and Spen has been represented since 1997 by Mike Wood for Labour, but was held for the Conservatives between its creation in 1983 and 1997 by Elizabeth Peacock. At the next election Mr. Wood will defend a notional majority of 6,060 (based on the Rallings and Thrasher calculations), meaning that Janice requires a swing of a 6.8% to unseat him.

Janice said on her selection:

“I am delighted to have been selected to represent Batley and Spen
and now look forward to representing the constituency in the months to
come. I know from talking to people across Batley and Spen that they are
ready for change after twelve years of inaction from this Labour
Government.

“People are worried about paying their mortgage, will they have a
job in the months to come, will they get their children into a decent
school and will their savings be safe. Businesses cannot raise the cash they need to expand and those that
can are seeing extortionate interest rates being imposed upon them.

“As an owner of a small business, I will work with businesses to get
them through this recession and retain the skills we need. Because if
we don’t, then those jobs will go to India and China and will be lost
forever. I urge employers to get in touch with me and I will do all I
can to help”.